Corning and Nvidia partner to open three advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas dedicated to optical tech, boosting Corning's US capacity 10x (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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Nvidia and Corning are opening three dedicated optical manufacturing plants in NC and TX, expanding Corning's US optical capacity 10x to support AI infrastructure buildout.

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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/nvidia-corning-optical-factories-nc-texas-ai.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260506/i20.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260506/p20#a260506p20" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Katie Tarasov / <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/">CNBC</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/nvidia-corning-optical-factories-nc-texas-ai.html">Corning and Nvidia partner to open three advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas dedicated to optical tech, boosting Corning's US capacity 10x</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence boom, is partnering with glassmaker Corning for three &hellip; </p>